Tuesday, December 04, 2012

One Flew Over The Po-Po's Nest...

Keep the Schoolcraft case in mind when people are encouraging more proactive government intervention in mental health. I don't mean to go all Godwinski, but you know who had a really good system of state mental health facilities? The Soviet Union, that's who. They were really good at diagnosing disagreewiththegovernmentosis.

If Schoolcraft can hang on he will get a tractor trailer full of cash backed up to his door. Word is he turned down a few very lowball offers while the city drags it out. He's got em by the short and curlys and they know it.

I hate to agree with the $cientologists about anything, but they did seem to get one thing right; psychiatrists tend to be Statist quacks. They are, of course, wrong about everything else.

This is also kind of personal for me. I used to read and correspond a bit in the Autisphere, and I tellya, if there's anybody who hates a psychiatrist even more, possibly, than does a $cientologist, it's an Autie/Aspie. Yes, I do think I have a touch of the "A".

Bruno Bettelheim's grave is one of the three upon which I most wish to piss.